COMING ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 7

COMING ELECTIONS.

NORTH ISLAND CANDIDATES. , PRESENT OPPOSITION LIST. .I ; The- following is -a list of candidates who 4a vo announced- their intention of contesting North • Island electorates in the Opposition interest. It. will be seen tliat ';io. announcement has yet boon jnado-in connection with • some scats: — .. . -■ Bay of Islands . Mr. J. C. Johnston. Kaipara'-- - -Mr. A. E.. Harding. . Marsdon-". *Mr. I ( \ blunder, , 1 Waitomata ,*Mr. K. W. Alison. Eden *Mr. J.' Bollard. Miinukau ■ ■■■ > *Mr. F. W. Lang. Franklin *Mr. W. F. Massey. Waikato i Mr. Allen Bell. Tauranga *Mr. W. H. Ilcrrics. - Bay of Plenty Mr. J. Gow. Taranaki *Mr. \H. J- H. Okoy. Stratford ;'• Mr. J. B. rHine. ,• Taumarunui Mr. Bowater. / Now Egmont. Not fixed till April ,14. Patea ' Not fixed. . Wanganui Not fixed. Oroua" ; "Mr. F. Y. Lethbridge. ' Manawatu \; : /Mr. E. ; Newman. .... . Rangitikei -No . selection. ~,, Palmerslon North No selection. Otaki ' , Mr. Byron Brown. ■ Gisbome; ■i. '. No announcement. v Hawke'sßay Sir William Russell. Wainawa \ No announcement. PahFatua Mr. J. C. Cooper Masterton , 1 , No announcement. , , Wairarapa , ,Mr. W. C, Buchanan. City of Auckland < • '. and Suburbs Not yet fixed. * Sitting mombers. It is understood that Mr. P. L. Holling?, Bolicitor, of MaSterton.-will contest the Masterton electorate at the., next general election as -an. independent candidate. , I ' AN INNOVATION. With reference to the New, Egmont ele> torate, about which there has jet been no definite- announcement, cack local district,in ■ ■ the "electorate has been requested to conveno a meeting of Opposition supporters, to appoint a delegate to. attend conforenco in Eltham, on April 14, with the object of - selecting a candidate from amongst tho three > gentlomen, .Messrs. Wilkinson,, Dive, and Maj-x, who have announced their inteft--tiori of' contestingJJio. seat in the Opposition V] '■ interests^';;vv£.!.

"POLITICAL REFORM, d - . MEETING AT CARTERTON. •- Jjt i IEI-EOBAPn—SPECIAL • CORMMPONDKNT,! . ' Masterton, March 31. Mr. R. R. Martin, Organising Secretary of tho New Zealand Political Reform League,' addressed a public, meoting at Carterton to- ■ • night upon, political topics of the day. Tho : earlier portion of Mr. Martin's was devoted to the valuo' of organisation. The / benefits derivable .fromia- perfect system, of , ■ organisation,-and tho .-unsatisfactory, results ' owing toi lack'of organisation,/ were clearly- . demonstrated; ' Taking . Auckland, Province as an .example, Mr. iMartin showed ' that tho Opposition hadigained 16,512 votes, -, ag&inqt - a Government gain of « only. 3981. • Yet,i notwithstanding this fact, the Govern:, -nient 1 party,; ( '.had .secured -.-three).-, a4ditional '- seats,-• namely, • Olimomuri, Waikato,; and / Kaipara;' Since>the,- l Oppositions had realised the value of; organisation,, thero had been a ' different:tale,.to;tell; .! The: victories m tho; bv-electfong atjManukau and Taranaki; spoke for 'themselves. 1 ' •Coming to the political reforms advocated by :tho ,'Loagub,' Mr; 'Martin demonstrated . Very: clearly .the necessity for: roform in. the present-deceptive methods,of presenting the. r . public accounts, ,'tlie /reform of the Legisla-. ' tive Council, tho repeal of the obnoxious pro-. visions,: of ■; the . Public ' Revenues' Act, ,-:190<j), .'the-reform. m the Civil Service and local government system, -the, land, laws-and. Native land, matters,- and the-reform of: the system ■ ; :of carrying, out pur, public -.works. Thesys- . tern, of Customs-taxation and the extraya- ., gant manner;rin the -spending .o£ , publio , money were next dealt with. ..